Clarke adamant he’s still in hunt for BBC personality award

DARREN CLARKE wants it to be known that he has not pulled his name out of the running for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

Clarke, who lost his wife Heather to cancer in August, had been odds-on favourite for the award when he won all his three games in Europe’s record-equalling Ryder Cup victory over the USA just six weeks later.

Bookmakers then suspended betting on him winning the vote after radio reports on Saturday that he would be ruling himself out because he did not want his personal grief put under the spotlight again.